dbForge Comparison 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

dbForge Comparison

4.5

(15)

Pricing

Starting at $269.95 per year

About dbForge Comparison

dbForge Comparison is a suite of database comparison and synchronization tools from Devart. The tools cater to users working with SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases. They provide efficient ways to manage database changes.

The dbForge Comparison tools offer remote and cloud server support. This allows users to compare and synchronize databases across different servers, including cloud and remote environments. The tools include convenient wizards that enable customization options. Users can fine-tune auto-mapping, data and object conversion, and script contents and behavior. To streamline routine tasks, users can save comparison scripts as batch files and schedule their execution via Windows Scheduler. This automates the comparison and synchronization process.

The dbForge Comparison suite supports a wide range of data sources. These include databases, backups, scripts, folders, source control, and snapshots. The comparison wizards also provide comprehensive management of comparison results. Users can sort, filter, include or exclude objects, and generate reports in various formats such as HTML, Excel, CSV, PDF, and XML. These features facilitate analysis and decisi...

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dbForge Comparison Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $269.95 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Standard (Subscription)

$269.95

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Support for all schema objects
DB properties compare & sync
Snapshots comparison
Tables & views comparison
Rich customization options
Custom mapping

Professional (Subscription)

$329.95

per user, per year

Plan includes:

All features from Standard +
Version control comparison
SVN, TFS, GIT, Hg support
Native backups comparison
Static data comparison
Command-line interface

Standard (Perpetual)

$529.95

per user, one time

Plan includes:

Support for all schema objects
DB properties compare & sync
Snapshots comparison
Tables & views comparison
Rich customization options
Custom mapping

Professional (Perpetual)

$649.95

per user, one time

Plan includes:

All features from Standard +
Version control comparison
SVN, TFS, GIT, Hg support
Native backups comparison
Static data comparison
Command-line interface

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dbForge Comparison Features

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Activity Dashboard
Automatic Backup
Customer Database
Data Connectors
Data Import/Export
Data Migration
Data Quality Control
Data Security
Data Synchronization
Data Visualization
Multiple Data Sources
More features of dbForge Comparison
Customizable Reports
Data Analysis Tools
Data Integration
Third-Party Integrations

dbForge Comparison Integrations

Microsoft SQL Server

dbForge AI Assistant

dbForge Comparison User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

53%

40%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.7

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Anna K.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Helps to compare and synchronize data and schema changes

From a number of proposed comparison solutions, we use dbForge Compare Bundle. It’s because synchronizing production schemas with development schemas and the application's ORM is our routine. Using this tool, we can automate the process. The tool can be called from the command line, which means it’s already integrated into our CI pipeline. We looked at a whole bunch of other tools, but only this one ticks all the boxes and is reasonably priced.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Automate routine synchronization tasks, restore procedures from native backups, command-line interface

Cons:

Windows only, would like to run it under Linux

Robert O.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

Finally I found a good comparison tool

Overall I am happy with dbForge Comparison tool. Visual Studio Schema Comparison does not allow you to filter by object. RedGate has an awkward user interface. Adept SQL Diff is no longer supported (used to be my favorite comparison tool). The winner is dbForge :-)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

dbForge Comparison tool has a clean, simple User Interface. I've tried lots of other tools and never liked the UI and too many steps to start comparison. My favorite operation is to filter by stored procedure name and see the differences in two environments.

Cons:

Unfortunately even if you need to do a small comparison like one table schema, dbForge still runs full database comparison which takes extra 30-40 seconds.

Reasons for choosing dbForge Comparison

Better user interface. Filer by object ability.

Reasons for switching to dbForge Comparison

I do not like RedGate user interface. It's confusing, not straight forward.

Verified

Reviewer

Consumer Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Reviewed December 2020

Customizable comparison

Seems fast enough and has a decent UI

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

You can customize the comparison rules (ignore these tables etc), then you can ensure your comparison is not noisy. The free tools (like Microsoft's don't do this).

Cons:

It costs more to get the command line capability. BUT to put this in a CICD pipeline you always need command line support.

Garry D.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2020

dbForge Data and SQL Compare are incredible time savers

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Due to the way our legacy data is configured, I frequently need to selectively move data from one SQL Server instance to another. With Data Compare, I am able to do this in a few minutes. Without it, moving the data could easily take hours. Schema Compare is equally useful. It allows us to quickly compare databases in a development environment to make sure changes are applied correctly. The software is also very useful for comparing a current database to an older one to see the cumulative changes when researching a bug.

Cons:

When dealing with many differences in Data Compare, it can be tedious to find the records you want to synchronize. Additional filtering options in the results view would be greatly appreciated.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

The easiest way to compare schemas and data and keep them in sync.

We save time when performing deployments and we can be confident that changes have been migrated correclty and that we have not missed anything that should have been moved over.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

We use this software when migrating changes between our development, staging and production environments. It is easy to use and speeds up the time it takes to ensure that the changes we make on our database (schemas and reference data) gets moved correctly between environments.

Cons:

The UI is sometime a bit slow, hopefully that has been improved in the new version but I have not upgraded yet. The software is also windows only, there is no Linux or MacOS version so we have to run a windows box to use it.

Reasons for choosing dbForge Comparison

Support for MySQL, cost and ease of use.

David C.

Verified reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed May 2020

Excellent Software - Makes comparisons easy

We were standing up a new data warehouse and needed to validate that the new solution had correct results when compared to the previous solution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is intuitive to use. It provides the differences broken down by Only in source, Only in target and differences which is very helpful in debugging.

Cons:

It would be helpful if it could provide the deltas in spreadsheets directly. Currently you have to manually extract the deltas to excel.

Reasons for choosing dbForge Comparison

It was easier to use and faster

Stephan W.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed October 2020

My Swiss Army Knife

After a short period of learning, I like the intuitive way in which the tools let me compare and transfer structural changes and changes to the data between systems.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

In the process of dealing with new software versions to test, staging and live systems, the dbForge Comparison tools make it easy to identify differences that may indicate bugs in the software, and to prepare scripts for deploying structural changes and changes to data between software versions and systems.

Cons:

There were moments in time when the tools did not yet support the latest version of the database product (in my case MySQL), so that the tools were not usable for a while for me.

Darren K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2020

Good value for money

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's easy to use and a lot like the more expensive versions from other providers so if you've used those then there isn't much of a learning curve to worry about. Being able to save comparison files and the connection manager make repeating or creating similar comparisons easy and quick.

Cons:

I find if you leave the software open, after a day or so, the UI completely locks up and you have to end task it from the Task Manager. If you shut your PC down each night or close programs when you're finished them then you'd never notice but I do neither very often.

Reasons for switching to dbForge Comparison

Price

David C.

Verified reviewer

Aviation & Aerospace

5001-10000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed December 2020

dbForge Schema/Data Compare tools save me a lot of time

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

We are in the process of standing up a new data warehouse and we use the dbForge tools to compare schemas as well as the data (old versus new). They are easy to use and have a number of configurational features that are helpful in avoiding false negatives during comparisons.

Cons:

I would like it if there was an export feature on the comparison results so that I could save them to an Excel spreadsheet. Currently I have to select the results and paste them into a spreadsheet manually.

Bill C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed July 2020

Solid tool

I am satisfied with this application and there have only been a few situations where it would not complete the sync function and I had to finish manually.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The applications doesn't seem to lack any features or functions that I have found in other similar tools.

Cons:

The application is not as easy to navigate as other similar tools that I have used.

Reasons for choosing dbForge Comparison

Most complete in features and kept data safe.

Reasons for switching to dbForge Comparison

The other application was very good but was no longer being updated for the newer versions of SQL.